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UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

JOHN GJERS, OF MIDDLESBROUGH, IN THE NORTH RIDING, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR EQUALIZING THE TEMPERATURE OF STEEL INGOTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,048, dated January 1, 1884.

Application filed March 2 3, 1883. (No modeh) Patented in Germany May 9, 1882, No. 21,716 in England July 26, 1882, No. 3;54 5; in Belgium April 13, 1883, No. 61,080, and in Luxemburg October 30, 1883, No. 317.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN Games, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain andlreland, residing at Middlesbrough, in the North Riding of the county of York, Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Equalizing the Temperature of Steel Ingots, (for which, with other improvements, I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 3,545, bearing date July 26, 1882,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to an arrangement of apparatus wherein steel ingots can be treated in such a way that they may be converted intoa finished state without reheating them in a furnace.

According to my invention the ingots are placed in a long chamber resembling a flue, constructed in a mass of brickwork, and provided with a traveling platform or support to carry the ingots along while under treatment, the arrangement being such that while the ingots are in the flue-like chamber their temper ature will be caused to become throughout sufficiently uniform to enable them to be rolled without reheating in a furnace, as is ordinarily practiced. V

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being a side elevation, partly in section; Fig. 2, a plan; Fig. 3, an enlarged longitudinal vertical section of one end of the chamber or flue and traveling platform or support, and Fig. 4 a cross-section.

a is the casting-pit; b, the blooming or rolling mill; 0, the equalizing chamber, constructed in the manner of a flue in a mass of brick-work, d, designed to act as an accumument for this purpose (shown in the drawings) consists of a series of rollers, g, each on an axis, h, supported in bearings t, and driven from a shaft, 70, by bevel-gear Zm, said shaft is being actuated in any suitable manner. The ingots are, by the cranes 0, taken from the casting-pit a, and are lowered into the chamber 0, through which they are carried by the rollers g. The ingots are carried along intermittently in a horizontal position, and each ingot, after it has remained a sufficient time in the chamber 0, is taken out by the crane p, (the cover f being first removed,) and is transferred to the rollers q, whereby it is fed to the 1. An apparatus for equalizing the tempera ture of steel ingots, comprising a long chamber resembling a flue, constructed in a mass of brick-work and provided with a traveling platform or support to carry the ingots along while under treatment, the arrangement being such that while theingots are in the flue-like chamber their temperature will be caused to become throughout sufficiently uniform to enable them to be rolled without reheating in a furnace, substantially as described.

2. The improved apparatus for equalizing the temperature of steel ingots comprising the flue-like chamber 0, with inlet 6, removable cover 6', outlet f, removable cover f, rollers g, and mechanism for operating same, all substantially as described and illustrated.

JOHN GJERS.

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J OHN WALLIN,

Accountant, Mtddlesbrough. SANDERS R. TAWTON, Accountant, Church Street, Mt'ddlesbrough. 

